As a ONE Champion and founder of YouthXcel Africa, I spend a lot of time thinking about what young people across Africa are actually asking for, and what African youth development should look like when it reflects their realities. This year's International Youth Day theme gave language to something I had been circling for a while.
'Different Contexts, Common Aspirations' sounds like reassurance at first, a reminder that young people everywhere want roughly the same things. Sit with it...
Lesijolu Eric-Nwabuzor
As global health financing becomes increasingly uncertain, Senegal is confronting a defining question: how can it move from dependence on external assistance to a more sovereign, sustainable and accountable model of financing health?
For decades, development assistance has played an important role in financing health systems across Africa. But that model is under increasing pressure. As external funding becomes less predictable and countries face growing demands on public resources, the question for African governments is no longer simply how to...
What the IMF's final review means for capital flows into Ghana — and why the 24-Hour Economy is the clearest test of whether the country's improved macro story translates into productive investment.
The headline writes itself: Ghana has exited its IMF programme. That is not the interesting part.
The interesting part is what Ghana chose to do next. Rather than walking away from surveillance entirely, the authorities requested a non-financing instrument, discipline without dependency, a supervised policy anchor with no money...
Africa has made its case for greater health sovereignty. What comes next will determine whether Accra becomes a defining turning point or another well-intentioned moment without sustained follow-through.
At the African Union’s Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra, I found myself carrying two feelings at once.
The first was fatigue. Much of what was said was true, urgent, and painfully familiar. Africa must finance more of its own health systems. Primary health care must be stronger. Medicines and vaccines must be manufactured...
Advocacy, learning and the pathway gap for young Africans
We asked 482 young people across six countries what they know about advocacy, what keeps them up at night, and what would make them act. Their answers reframe the problem, and should change where the rest of us focus our time, attention and money.
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There is a comfortable story told about young Africans and civic life. That they are disengaged. That they need to...
What the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Health means for the continent's health future, and why ONE believes the real work starts now.
For two days in July, Accra hosted something Africa's health agenda has needed for a long time: a political moment built around delivery rather than declaration.
The African Union Extraordinary Summit on Health, convened on 21 and 22 July under the leadership of Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama and chaired by AU Chairperson President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi,...
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Kenya's agricultural sector employs over 70% of the rural workforce and drives nearly a quarter of national GDP. Yet its financial foundations are cracking because decades of chronic underinvestment made donor dependency the default. and then the donors left.
The collapse of USAID's Kenya programs in 2025 didn't just remove money. It removed the agronomists, the extension services, the early warning systems, and the institutional scaffolding that smallholder farmers had quietly come to depend on. What followed was not...